Babel School in Taiwan

Sports, just as music, is an important part of our kids' homeschooling education. Since very young age we've always let them try different disciplines - soccer, basketball, cycling, skiing, swimming and of course roller blading and ice-skating.  As a child, for quite a few years, I used to take ice-skating lessons (in Poland and in US). As I remember they were the only lessons I took outside school.  I've always likes skating and it was obvious to me that Zosia should try it too. First time we put her on ice was in US when she was just over one year old. Later, after we moved to UK, I used to take her skating there. We had lots of fun on a big and empty rink in Peterborough .  When we moved to Taiwan there was no ice-skating rink in Taipei, but roller blading was becoming popular. That's why Zosia started taking one-on-one roller blading lessons at Y17 台北市青少年育樂中心 . She was getting really good at roller blading and was enjoying the speed.  2006 Competition ...

Since the beginning of April we've been closely following a film on YouTube. Checking the number of hits, promoting it among our friend and friends of friends and reading the comments. Why have we been doing this? Well, it's a first film that Zosia played a major role in and edited all by herself. Two of her homeschooling friends helped her with the story, script and filming. The film took part in Taipei International Children's Film Festival organised by Public TV. Although it hasn't won the grand prix, but was very well received by the public, media and the organisers. If you haven't seen the movie click on it below (it's in Chinese with English subtitles). And here is the news about the film:

All the hours at Taipei Arena have paid off - Zosia won the GOLD medal at the Skate Asia 2011 held in August in Bangkok, Thailand. We are very proud of her. Her performance was really beautiful and graceful. See for yourself:

It's hot - very hot - too hot to do anything but sit at home or in the swimming pool. Of course it's not too hot for a summer camp at Juming Museum. And that's exactly where Jas is staying this week. Before the camp he had to prepare a piece of art work with his favourite scenery. This is what he (and Zosia) came up with: Do you know what it is? It's one of the lakes on Mazury, that we go to almost every year while in Poland. After four days we went to pick Jaś up from the camp. This year's theme in Jaś' group had something to do with water... Jaś introducing his group's project   Great-aunt and ... Ama, Agong also came to see Jaś at the last day of the camp. Zosia is still spending a lot of time at the ice-skating rink  preparing for next week's competition in Thailand.